Isaiah 23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king… Tyre shall be forgotten "seventy years, like the days of one king"; — a Hebrew idiom, obscure to us, though probably plain enough to Isaiah's hearers; but of which the most probable sense is, that the round number here, as elsewhere, indicates an indefinite, though considerable time, and that the prophet either farther limits this by a phrase equivalent to "for about a whole generation," or else implies that the seventy years — the long time of oblivion — shall be as monotonous, and perhaps as short to look back upon, as those of a single reign. (Sir E. Strachey, Bart.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. |
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